Corrie's Lucy-Jo Hudson says she'd 'done worst thing' after putting kids in danger

Coronation Street star Lucy Jo-Hudson almost broke down in tears as she realised she'd 'done the worst thing' for her children by putting them on social media.

The actress, 42, who played tragic teenager Katy Harris on the ITV soap in the mid-2000s, has a daughter with her former co-star Alan Halsall, and a son with her current partner, but hadn't realised the dangers of plastering her family life all over Instagram.

Lucy-Jo teamed up with Good Morning Britain and security expert Jake Moore to conduct an experiment on her social media activity, where they were able to work out where she lives, who she banks with and where her children go to school all by looking at her profile.

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The TV star thought she had taken all the right steps to protect her identity but was shocked to discover that AI can be used to unblur something like a logo on school uniform. Struggling to keep it together, she said: "I mean, I felt like I covered my tracks as well. I never put the kids' school uniforms on. I never really take pictures outside the school. It's always away from there. And I blur everything, or I cover the logo on the jumper.

"And I'm quite conscious of what are the images that I put out. And I'll always ask my daughter. She's 12 now, so I always get consent that she's happy for me to put anything up there or not. But then Jake found absolutely everything.

"And I think it just knocked me for six, and that was where it. I got emotional just because you want to protect your kids, don't you? So, and I felt like I'd done the worst thing."

The former Hollyoaks actress thought she was 'conscious' before she found all this out but then decided to delete a whole load of content from her platforms, and has just learned to be more 'aware' of the whole thing to start with.

I mean, I thought I was conscious before all this, and now I'm like literally before when we spoke last week and we were going through it all, I was like delete, delete, I just deleted a load of stuff.

"So I am gonna think a hell of a lot more of what I put out there and things that I think are innocent, the only thing I do showcase is the kids' birthdays, because you wanna celebrate it, but actually looking at just that little detail is so big to anybody that wants to hack into anything, they've got that, they've go the information, so.

"I'm going to be a lot more aware of what I'm doing. All of it. I mean, I think it started off with a house and the mortgage, and it just kept going on, and my email address, and my partner's number, and passwords. And then I think what got me was the kids' schools, because I've never shared that on social media ever."